A high-octane adventure in the style of Dan Brown. If you love the Da Vinci Code, you'll love this book."Tricksters and Angels" is a paranormal thriller that takes you on a journey to sacred sites to uncover the mystery of a new healing power. A power reminiscent of the healings produced by Jesus, but far beyond that of even Christ himself.Once a highly respected human geographer and expert in the healing energy of sacred sites, Jonathan Ramsey lost his way after one fatefu...

"Eighteen and a Half Minutes" is a contemporary political mystery/thriller set in Denver, Colorado and Washington, D.C. This book has an epic revelation at its heart – it answers one of America's greatest unsolved political mysteries – what’s on Richard Nixon’s missing eighteen and a half minutes. When political talk show host Amy Rutledge embarks on a documentary revealing the real reasons behind America’s two unsuccessful wars in the Middle East, she stumbles upon a web of intrigue. It i...

"Ganieva's writing has a kind of magic." —Lauren Smart, Dallas Observer"Never before has Russian literature produced such an honest and complete picture of today's Caucasus. —Kommersant Weekend (Russia)One of the Dallas Observer's 10 Best Books To Read This FallWorld Literature Today Editor's PickThis remarkable debut novel by a unique young Russian voice ...

It is the late autumn of 1854 and the steam gunboat Spartan, commanded by James Rutherford has returned to duty following the repair of her battle damage in Calcutta.Another, though less powerful, Russian commerce raider is still at large in the China Sea, though as events follow their course, Rutherford is forced to confront the fact that this lesser antagonist might be a more potent adversary than he previously believed.

The time is winter 1962, the place London. Teddy Bean’s detective agency isn’t doing too well lately. Their most illustrious client is an ageing actor who thinks he will be murdered. Another case is even more complicated when ex-police detective Tony Halliday is assigned to a worried wife who thinks her husband is planning a bank robbery and falls for her in the process.Meanwhile, Teddy’s worries about his failing business and on-off relationship with a divorcee are beginning to ta...

It is the late autumn of 1854 and the steam gunboat Spartan, commanded by James Rutherford has returned to duty following the repair of her battle damage in Calcutta.Another, though less powerful, Russian commerce raider is still at large in the China Sea, though as events follow their course, Rutherford is forced to confront the fact that this lesser antagonist might be a more potent adversary than he previously believed.

When Lieutenant James Rutherford of the Honourable East India Company is summoned to Government House in Calcutta, he has no inkling of what awaits him there. To his great surprise, he is offered command of the Spartan, a newly converted steam warship, receiving orders to proceed to sea to hunt a Chinese pirate, but, though those orders appear straightforward enough, they initiate a deadly sequence of events during which the hunter all too often is the quarry.****Martin Hic...

This series of stories address everyday issues sympathetically and with excellent character development whilst depicting people which many readers will identify with as the storylines are creatively and skillfully intertwined. This eclectic collection of stories expresses all of the human emotions of the characters with great sensitivity and with pathos.

An adventure tale that has capture the ages!The first book in the legendary Tarzan series tells the story of John Clayton, born in the coastal jungles of Africa to a marooned couple from England, adopted as an infant by apes after they die, then raised in ignorance of his human heritage.Through sheer force of will Tarzan becomes king of the jungle and slowly learns of his origin.This is the exciting novel that began it all.

Tarzan (formerly Lord Greystoke) is now in his mid-twenties and he and Jane have had a son, whom they've named Jack. Tarzan is in his new home on the Waziri lands in Uziri, Africa, but has returned to his ancestral estate in London for the rainy season, when suddenly his son is kidnapped by marauders.Determined to rescue his son, Tarzan must once again perilously navigate through treacherous jungles, fight dangerous animals, and outwit those who seek to harm his family. With his fa...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2016, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in June 2016.The 19 full papers, 5 short and 6 workshop papers were selected from 49 submissions and present novel interactive techniques and their application in entertainment, education, culture and art. The papers are grouped in six thematic sessions: serious games, novel applications and too...

"Bigfoot is not a biological creature or species but an interdimensional presence more akin to a UFO. Bigfoot is occult or paranormal, not biological or scientific. Or, more maddening, Bigfoot is both. Here in this book we have what is perhaps our most extensive case of this interdimensional model. Everything is connected. High strangeness is a feature of the phenomenon, not a bug to remove or deny. We look for Bigfoot as Bigfoot looks for us in this very two-way communication and...